President Donald Trump is catching flak from politcal Twitter again, this time for how he might’ve undercut his own legal standing while declaring a national emergency relating to what he’s deemed a crisis on the southern border.

Trump declared an emergency on Friday, confirming he will draw federal funding from various areas of the government to compensate for getting only a fraction of the money he sought for the border wall from Congress. The president took a series of question on his decision, and one of the most interesting moments happened when he told NBC’s Peter Alexander“I didn’t need to do this, but I’d rather do it much faster.”

Trump, responding to my question, concedes there’s no national emergency to justify building his wall: “I didn’t need to do this… I just want to do it faster.”That answer will complicate his legal case.

Shortly after Trump’s comment, numerous political observers picked up on it, and noted how Trump just admitted he did this for political reasons more than anything. As such, many believe Trump’s comments will be quite relevant once his emergency is challenged in court.

Trump, questioned by @PeterAlexander, concedes there’s no national emergency to justify building his wall. “I didn’t need to do this.” “I just want to do it faster.” A gift to all the lawyers preparing to sue him.

As I watched Trump's bizarre performance this morning — his sing-song recitation about the courts, his paranoid allusions to media reporting about his ban, his weird "I didn't need to do this" concession that there's really no emergency — I kept thinking: 25th Amendment.